Michael Robison, the founder and former CEO of of Lanier Parking, was acquitted of rape charges Tuesday afternoon in a Nantucket jury trial.
The jury deliberated two hours and 40 minutes before acquitting Robison, who retired from Lanier Parking in early 2014 after selling the company.
The sale of most of Fort McPherson to filmmaker Tyler Perry is “imminent,” and Perry met with area residents May 4 to discuss their concerns for how his future complex will relate to the neighborhood.
The Atlanta BeltLine plans to sell a 1.5-acre, tree-covered parcel next to Piedmont Park to a developer who’s to build a mix of shops and residences, most likely apartments. Proposals are due Friday.
Atlanta’s prospects of hosting the Nobel Peace Laureates Summit in November have become even more challenging as the deadline to present a solution to the international body has been extended until May 13.
Further complicating an already messy situation, three members resigned Friday from the board of Yunus Creative Labs – the entity that has been in charge of putting on the Summit. The three board members were Laura Turner Seydel, who had been chairing the host committee for the Nobel Peace Laureate Summit; Jason Carter, the grandson of 2002 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jimmy Carter; and Willis Potts, former chairman of the Georgia Board of Regents.
In a city that doesn’t hesitate to tear down old buildings, Georgia Tech is providing glimpses of the iconic structures that created Atlanta’s marquee Peachtree Street corridor.
The founding CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights – Doug Shipman – is stepping down in early June – nearly one year after the attraction opened.
Shipman has been involved with the project for the past decade. It began as a 10-week pro-bono consulting assignment that turned into developing, opening and running the Center this past year.
TORONTO – Metro Atlanta leaders received a dose of reality Friday about transportation investment in Canada’s largest city.
The 110 Atlanta leaders on the 19th annual LINK delegation heard from a panel of transportation executives in Ontario about how much the Greater Toronto Area is spending on just its transit infrastructure.
TORONTO – One probably could not find two mayors more different that Toronto’s former mayor – Rob Ford – and its current mayor – John Tory.
Ford gained international notoriety for his drug and alcohol problems along with skirmishes and outlandish, yet strangely comical behavior as mayor.
So when citizens of Toronto – the largest city in Canada – went to the polls last October, they elected a leader who was the opposite of Ford.
A surprisingly high proportion of Republicans in Gwinnett County support expanding MARTA in their county, the pollster who conducted the poll said Wednesday.
TORONTO – The first stop for 110 metro leaders from Atlanta on the 19th annual LINK trip Wednesday was the “suburban” city of Mississauga.
But it was unlike any suburban city in Georgia.
Back in 1974, Mississauga’s population was about 250,000, the city’s chief administrative officer – Janice Baker – told the LINK delegation. Today its population is closer to 750,000 – substantially bigger than the City of Atlanta – the biggest city in Georgia.
The $227 million bond package Atlanta was slated to sell Tuesday, to help pay for the new Falcons stadium, was rated as investment grade with a stable outlook by Moody’s Investors Service.
By Maria Saporta Leadership Atlanta has selected another high-level group of people to be part of its upcoming 2016 class – with 83 leaders from education, law, business, religion, nonprofits, technology, media, healthcare, politics and government. The all share a common desire – to move Atlanta forward by delving into some of the city’s thorniest […]
By Maria Saporta The City of Atlanta has one more week to work out an agreement to host the 2015 Nobel Peace Laureates Summit in November. The 2015 Working Meeting of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates met in Rome on May 2 and 3 to consider the “impasse” that has developed over the […]
Atlanta’s recently approved $250 million bond referendum is to provide each of the city’s 12 council districts with $5.6 million to upgrade transportation and public facilities, according to a draft list the Atlanta City Council is slated to consider Monday.
Atlanta’s airport posted a gain in cargo handled in the first quarter of 2015 compared to 2014. However, the tonnage remains below the amount handled during the same period in three of four previous years.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s administration has provided a written response to the discussion in the Atlanta City Council’s Transportation Committee regarding the reasons that the Atlanta Streetcar will not charge fares this year.
The state Department of Transportation expects to announce Friday the name of the company that will widen Ga. 400 in Forsyth County, a project that was central to the debate over the transportation funding bill the Legislature approved this year.
Nearly 20 years ago, Atlanta business writer Thomas Oliver wrote an entertaining book about one of the best-publicized missteps by a major U.S. corporation.
When it comes to annual meetings, the greatest show in Atlanta is the Coca-Cola Co. – and the 2015 meeting did not disappoint.
Early in the meeting at the Cobb Galleria Centre, Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent introduced a special video. Multi-billionaire Warren Buffett appeared on screen with a ukulele and began to sing: “I want to buy the world a Coke.”
The Atlanta Streetcar will be free to ride through 2015 because there is no economical way to collect a fare. That’s because MARTA’s Breeze card technology isn’t feasible to use, Atlanta’s commissioner of the Public Works Department said Wednesday.
